R&D and Innovation

Two new partnerships built up with the help of the IRC Network developed knowledge and processes in order to improve our environment. With a new generation of windows saving energy and safer water monitoring systems, everyone could benefit from these two successful collaborations.

EU-funded researchers have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from viruses. The discovery could lead to the development of 'vaccinations' to protect bacteria used in industrial processes from viral attacks. This new-found …

Dead zones: these ominous sounding areas of the seafloor deprived of oxygen and life, are spreading across the world's ocean floor. According to Rutger Rosenberg from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and Robert Diaz from the Virginia …

The next annual meeting of the European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine (ETPN) will be held in Madrid, Spain, on 25 and 26 September. The meeting will cover the following topics: - status of the research on nanomedicines; - commercialising …

A conference entitled 'The politics of knowing: research, institutions and gender in the making' will take place on 27 and 28 November in Prague, Czech Republic. It is organised to mark the completion of the EU-funded research project …

The European Commission's Directorate General for Health and Consumers has launched a call for tenders to create a European system of reference laboratories for pathogens for humans. The aim is to seek and provide rational bases for such a …

As many as one in five German plant species could be lost from certain parts of the country as a result of climate change, according to new research. Even a small increase in temperature and other ecological stresses could be disastrous to some …

An international team of scientists including both European institutes and an institute in South Africa has identified the strain of bluetongue that threatened European livestock in 2006-2007. The strain is believed to have originated in …

Over 75 years ago, Japanese innovator Kokichi Mikimoto shovelled 720,000 pearls into a burning furnace. His actions reverberated around the world and across time itself. By showing his willingness to destroy so many pearls, he made a commitment to …

The 12th European roundtable on sustainable consumption and production (erscp2008) will take place from 23 to 25 September in Berlin, Germany, as part of the Forum for Sustainability of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research …

The 14th Micro-optics conference (MOC '08) will be held in Brussels, Belgium, from 25 to 27 September. MOC '08 provides a central forum for state-of-the-art scientific and technical information covering a wide range of micro-optic topics …

A revolution is set to occur in the world of European energy delivery. The ADDRESS European project, funded to the tune of EUR 9 million by the EU, aims to provide European citizens with the next evolution in energy delivery through the …

The Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology will hold the third Life Science Symposium in Leipzig, Germany, on 24 and 25 October. This time, the symposium will be dedicated to ischaemia and regeneration with a focus on stroke, cardiac …

As part of its Regional Gateway service, CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Information Service, has launched a Regional Research and Innovation Service for the Italian region of Liguria. The service highlights the research and …

Do behavioural keys influence social interactions between animals, especially love? A group of researchers from Belgium's University of Antwerp and Hungary's Eötvös University say they do. In a study published in the …

An international workshop on the instrumentation at the European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) facility will take place from 29 to 31 October in Aarhus, Denmark. The workshop will bring together scientists interested in experiments using the …

Up-to-date information on the German region of Hamburg and its strengths in the research and innovation sector is now available on CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Information Service. The Hamburg Region Research and Innovation …

European researchers are relentless in their pursuit to develop technologies across the board. Case in point is medical technology and bone implants. Enter a team of researchers from the Germany-based Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing …

The EU-funded ACTIVE ('Enabling the knowledge powered enterprise') and MUSING ('Multi-industry, semantic-based next generation business intelligence') projects are organising a workshop on ontology-supported business …

To aid in its fight against climate change, the EU has awarded EUR 2.3 million to the POBICOS ('Platform for opportunistic behaviour in incompletely specified, heterogeneous object communities') project, which aims to get energy-saving …